28/03/2013

Lilac Tsukesage

Featuring this pretty tsukesage from K-Bridal. <3


Lilac + red details is such a lovely combination... Plus, I love the delicate sakura motif! The rosy flowers have a perfect middle tone between the red in the obi-jime+obiage and the soft golden obi, which gives this set a very harmonious look to my eyes! ^^

Oh, and speaking of tsukesage... I'll try to resume my kimono tutorials soon, and the next topic will be about this kind of kimono (and it's "almost twin", houmongi). They are my personal favourite types! =3


16/03/2013

Dusting Off...

Finally managing some time to post on my blog...

After one million and thirty-eight attempts, at last I did the sketch for my next Disney princess! Beauty and the Beast's Belle!


Her design was SO ridiculously hard to do... I wanted to base it on an eighteen-century gown, but without making it too historical or "Pompadour" - since the movie is quite clearly inspired in that period and there are so many versions of "rococo-Belle" I wanted to make mine different. XD

But all the times I tried to design her in "somewhat 18 Century-ish" style I failed terribly... which is weird, since I LOVE dresses from that period! Then, when I (very annoyed) gave up on Rococo-inspired style and started to - just for fun - doodle a more Victorian-ish shape dress... 
VOILÁ! I finnaly got satisfied with the sketch! ^_^

So, Victorian Belle... don't ask me why. It just looked right, so I'll go for it.  X3

I'm still not sure if I'll go for light gold or light/butter yellow on her dress... But I'm so happy I'll finally manage to continue this series! (<-- already thinking about which princess will draw next).

...On another topic, here are some Yuutaro & Hana (& Co.) sketches! ^^

 
Just a little Year of the Black Snake doodle, Hana-san sitting pretty and non-chibi version of Yuutaro (with the spear) and Sano (with the smirk). 
Lame shading is lame.

...I'll try my best to post kimono/hanbok features and (if times allows...) 
the next kimono mini-tutorial, from this week on... And Belle's progress! ^^